Hanya Yanagihara
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Hanya Yanagihara is an American novelist and editor best known for her critically acclaimed and emotionally intense novel "A Little Life."
All labels observed (1)
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| Hanya Yanagihara canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9592330 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hanya Yanagihara Context triple: [Farrar, Straus and Giroux, hasPublished, Hanya Yanagihara]
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A.
Ruth Ozeki
Ruth Ozeki is an American-Canadian novelist, filmmaker, and Zen Buddhist priest known for her genre-blending, contemplative works such as "A Tale for the Time Being" and "The Book of Form and Emptiness."
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B.
Benjamin Lerner
Benjamin Lerner is an alumnus of Central High School in Philadelphia, likely recognized as a notable graduate of the institution.
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C.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Jonathan Safran Foer is a contemporary American novelist known for his inventive narrative style and emotionally resonant works such as "Everything Is Illuminated" and "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close," which often explore themes of Jewish identity, memory, and trauma.
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D.
David Nicholls
David Nicholls is a British novelist and screenwriter best known for his bestselling novel "One Day" and its film and television adaptations.
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E.
Eyal Waldman
Eyal Waldman is an Israeli entrepreneur and engineer best known as the co-founder and longtime CEO of high-performance networking company Mellanox Technologies.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hanya Yanagihara Target entity description: Hanya Yanagihara is an American novelist and editor best known for her critically acclaimed and emotionally intense novel "A Little Life."
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A.
Ruth Ozeki
Ruth Ozeki is an American-Canadian novelist, filmmaker, and Zen Buddhist priest known for her genre-blending, contemplative works such as "A Tale for the Time Being" and "The Book of Form and Emptiness."
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B.
Benjamin Lerner
Benjamin Lerner is an alumnus of Central High School in Philadelphia, likely recognized as a notable graduate of the institution.
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C.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Jonathan Safran Foer is a contemporary American novelist known for his inventive narrative style and emotionally resonant works such as "Everything Is Illuminated" and "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close," which often explore themes of Jewish identity, memory, and trauma.
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D.
David Nicholls
David Nicholls is a British novelist and screenwriter best known for his bestselling novel "One Day" and its film and television adaptations.
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E.
Eyal Waldman
Eyal Waldman is an Israeli entrepreneur and engineer best known as the co-founder and longtime CEO of high-performance networking company Mellanox Technologies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Hanya Yanagihara Description of subject: Hanya Yanagihara is an American novelist and editor best known for her critically acclaimed and emotionally intense novel "A Little Life."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.